I thought the rebalanced difficulty came with a free patch, or is it part of the DLC?

Well, I checked PSN and there it is, and it's $5. I'll definitely pick it up if it's got all of that and is only $5. I'm curious, though, where do the new monsters and notes show up? Are they randomly scattered throughout the game or are there specific places one has to go to see them? From what I understand this Expansion Pack isn't adding any new levels.

Yea, the Expansion Pack pretty much remakes the game by scattering material through it. I'm not sure if you have to start a new character; I pretty much did one since I was giddy to play as JAMES AND HEATHER.

So I bought the patch today and I haven't been able to find an answer to this. I tried to jump right in with a new character but the same amount of classes were available as standard. I instead loaded up the file I'd gotten my first ending in (haven't gotten farther than that) and couldn't access any identity stones the DLC supposedly gave, nor was I able to access the other new classes once I backtracked and bought a separate stone myself. Is there something I'm missing? I don't think it prompted me for the patch, either, so I don't know if it's glitching or what.

You can download the patch manually, there should be an option for it on the page for the game (like if you have the game on, press the PS button and when all the info pops up that take you out of the game, there should be an option to download the patch there). Also make sure you install both the patch and the DLC you bought. Just downloading it isn't enough, check your activity bubble and see if it has stuff waiting to be installed. Sorry this isn't worded better, but hopefully you get what I mean.

I can confirm that the DLC does add the stuff to your existing characters, so you don't need to make a new one or anything. It should give you 4 or 5 Identity Stones, which is how you know it worked.

Oh, thanks for the help! I'm sorry if this is going to sound weird or convoluted also, I'm still learning the system myself.

Here's the basic run down of what happened so far: I downloaded the DLC, saw that it was waiting to be installed so I went into the game and it applied the DLC (had the installation bar and everything), then told me the installation was complete. This was where I started trying to access the DLC but it wasn't working. From what you suggested I gave a clean restart to the system because I had a lot of extra crap in the PS button's dash and I started out there with just Book of Memories. I pressed the PS button, it took me to the foldered menu but I'm not seeing anything for a DLC or patch, just the home, BoM, empty slots, and three unrelated advertisements at the bottom. Is there a specific icon I'm overlooking or...?

Edit: I've located the manual patch/update button! I'll update again if I get the DLC to work.

Edit2: YEP! Okay, for anyone who has my problem, just make sure you install the patch or else the DLC won't work because it's running on the patch+ software. If you're confused like I was, when you first press the game button and it takes you to the title screen where it asks you to "start" the game, there should be a small yellow circle in the top section beside a few other icons including a book; that's the patch button, just tap it and it'll ask you to install the most recent patch.

There is, but it's not told in the same way as other Silent Hill stories. It's left open-ended and vague because of the fact that you're basically customizing your character, but they do experience personality development of a sort.

sweet so what might i like about this that i enjoyed in every other silent hill ? have yet to finsh origins and still have to play shatterd memoreis but other wise im up to date , are there cinematics ? and whats the cheapest one could exspect to pay for the pal version ? looking to import im thinking .....

There's a couple of cinematics in the beginning, and for the endings, but the story is mostly told in diary pages and audio clips, simply because the alternative would negatively impact multi-player.

It's hard to describe what one would like about it without ruining the experience. It's very much a different type of game in almost every respect, but I still feel the touch of Silent Hill there. Story-wise, the character is essentially meant to be 'you', and the things they think and talk about would be something anyone can do.

It's mostly a combat-based game, being a spinoff, but they make it work. It's basically everything you love thrown together in a stew with no regards for canon, like going to a themed amusement park. Enjoy it for what it is, and you'll be fine.